Just spent a good 3/4 hours encrypting my laptop (again) whilst spamming [@]@Recursion[/@].
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Just spent a good 3/4 hours encrypting my laptop (again) whilst spamming [@]@Recursion[/@].
Bitlocker, bitlocker everywhere.
I did for a short period two years ago (truecrypt), but I got bored of the effort very quickly. Typing a long secure password everytime you want to access anything is hella annoying.
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/538/
Out of curious, why would anyone do this for personal use of their PC? I don't do it, and I'm not sure why anyone would unless you live in a rough area or you're a business user - but that's just me :P
Privacy, reassurance etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
From physical dangers like someone breaking into your house, or from some sort of access online or through a network?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jutnux
The physical dangers of someone breaking into your house as once you've decrypted the files so you can use them a remote attack is possible (although you probably know this, I'm not insulting your intelligence).Quote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
There's no intelligence to insult, I'm genuinely intrigued :P I've not heard of people encrypting their HDDs who are private, home users. I only know of business individuals who do this, and the odd computer scientist/web designer :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Jutnux
I'm extremely paranoid most of the time (bad thing, heh) and I usually think of the worst possible outcome of things so I'd rather be safe than sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by GommeInc
Encrypting the HDD stops anything that I don't know about going on (coupled with the heavy security, the OS being Linux and other stuff). I also Truecrypt my memory sticks.
I've got complete boot drive encryption on my laptop using Truecrypt. For my main computer I don't encrypt the boot drive as it's a fairly good SSD so I don't want to affect the performance by adding the additional overhead. However, I do encrypt any important data in a Truecrypt Container. I use a smart card (Gemalto .Net) for Windows logon (plus stuff like SSH public/private key authentication with the RSA keys generated on the card) and I use the same smart card as a security token for the Truecrypt container. The keyfile stored on the smart card, which has a limited number of PIN attempts before the card becomespermanentlyinaccessible, along with a long+complex password is used for access to the container.